Sikkim Court April 2015 Judgments

Shekhar Roy Vs. The State of Sikkim

Court: Sikkim

Sunil Kumar Sinha, CJ. - 1. This Appeal is directed against the Judgment dated 31.10.2011 passed in Sessions Trial Case No. 5/2010 by the Sessions Judge, Special Division-II, East Sikkim at Gangtok. By the impugned judgment, the Appellant has been convicted u/Ss. 302 and 324 IPC and sentenced to undergo R.I. for life and to pay fine of Rs.5,000/- and S.I. for 6 months, respectively, with default sentence of S.I. for 2 months under the first count with a further direction to run the sentences concurrently. 2. The facts, briefly, stated are as under:- 2.1 Deceased-Chumla was the landlady of the Appellant. On 22.08.2006 at about 1855 hrs., the Appellant came to the house of the deceased on the pretext of some talk with her. At that time, Kalu Subba (P.W.-1), Purkey Sherpa (P.W.-2) and Lalita (P.W.-3), maid servant of the deceased, were also present in her house. The allegations are that, firstly, the Appellant had some talk with the deceased and, thereafter, he attacked over the deceased ...